Friday, April 27, 2007

Kutaragi´s fall from grace - or K.K.´s slide

Today, I would like to say goodbye to one of the industry´s most notorious figures. He is often referred to as the ´the father of the PlayStation´. TIME magazine even called him the ´Gutenberg of videogames´ once.

More recently, though, the Wall Street Journal called him ´uncommunicative´, a ´renegade´ and a ´stumbling block´ for Sony Corp.´s success. These allegations were based on an interview with the company´s CEO, Howard Stringer.

To most gamers and even media outlets, he is now known merely as ´Krazy Ken´ or, as I like to call him, ´Ken "Krusty" Kutaragi´.

Why the fall from grace? Well, let us recall some of Krusty´s more memorable quotes.

You can communicate to a new cybercity. Did you see the movie The Matrix? Same interface. Same concept. Starting from next year, you can jack into The Matrix! (about the PlayStation2)

Newsweek (via an excerpt from Dean Takahashi´s book ´Xbox360 Uncloaked´ on 1UP), March 2000

I'm not going to reveal [the PS3's] price today. I'm going to only say that it'll be expensive. (...)

I'm aware that with all these technologies, the PS3 can't be offered at a price that's targeted towards households.

Of course, this is a number that we announced having made sure we can definitely prepare it. There is the possibility of unexpected problems like an earthquake or theft, so I won't say it's absolute, but if this type of trouble does not occur, there's no problem with this number. (about SCE´s global shipment target)

I believe we made the most beautiful thing in the world. Nobody would criticize a renowned architect's blueprint that the position of a gate is wrong. It's the same as that. (about a design flaw with the PSP´s square button)

The PlayStation [3] is not a game machine. We've never once called it a game machine. (...) With the PS3, our intentions have been to create a machine with supercomputer calculation capabilities for home entertainment.

The idea of a computer architecture that emulates living organisms struck me as I was swimming through a sea of ideas. A network made of cells that works like a single computer? I felt this wild urge to try out that sort of thing. (...)

Just think of the Apollo program that sent human beings to the moon, or Celera's project to analyze the human genome. Not every engineer has the chance to participate in such projects that can impact the course of the history. Cell is exactly this kind of project. (...) Thirty years from now, some members of our team may end up being looked up to just like Shockley or Moore. (about the opportunity for engineers to work on the development of the Cell chip)

I have aimed at bringing about a computer revolution. (about the PlayStation3 being a computer rather than a games console) (...)

Application programs can no longer directly access the hardware; instead they will have to be written in high-level, object-oriented language. That was done for security reasons: If processors of high performance and wide bandwidth like the Cell were linked together without sufficient security, a worldwide system crash could occur with one attack. (about the ease of developing games for the PS3) (...)

The model image for the Cell-based network may be the Internet: Servers around the world form one virtual "computer," and each PC accesses it. One Cell or cluster of Cells can also function as a server; but whereas the present Internet mainly handles characters, applications on the Cell network will also handle semantics and reasoning. (...)

I am sure that a technology revolution is about to occur, not only within Sony but throughout the digital consumer electronics industry.

Oh, my word. I was aware of most of those quotes, but I had evidently missed the best ones, like him comparing the PlayStation2 to the technology seen in the movie ´The Matrix´.

Also, believing that some engineers on the Cell chip development team may later be looked upon with the same regard as the father of Silicon Valley or the founder of Intel is another great one. And just think: if the engineers were to ascend into such spheres, where would that leave Kutaragi?

I cannot believe that this clown said all those things. The term hubris does not even start to describe his state of mind. I called for his resignation back in November, after it emerged that Krusty had been personally responsible for losing the console´s exclusivity of the ´Grand Theft Auto´ and ´Assassin´s Creed´ franchises. After all this, the only possible response to him leaving is ´good riddance´.

This transition could be the death of Sony's PS3, That huge arch is sinking, will the new captain know what to do?

In Japan's latest charts its selling less and less, and Playstation greatest franchises come from Japanese developers.

I think that the success of the PS3 depends very much from Japanese developers, Looking at the most wanted games being FFXIII, MGS4 oh wait they already lost most of the other exclusives, i guess it already started! and if many of those games were to come to the Wii one way or another, the 360 and PS3 would be compleately debasted.

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